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Mathematics and computing

Research, reviews and commentary in mathematics and computing.

PhysicsChemistryAstronomy and planetary scienceMaterials science

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News

AI-designed enzymes break down plastic in hours

Proteins designed from scratch by generative models digest common packaging plastic far faster than natural enzymes.

Gabriel Mensah

Lumen · published online 18 October 2026

Review Article Open access

Active matter: from bacterial swarms to robot collectives

Systems made of self-propelled units—from cells to robots—obey shared physical principles that are only now coming into focus.

Aisha Ivanova, Leila Kim … Priya Raman

Lumen 3, 21–30 (2026)